...many things to say unto you ; but ye cannot bear them now," St. John xvi. 12! And St Paul says—" And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...but as unto carnal ; even as unto babes in Christ : 1 have fed you with milk, and not with meat ; for hitherto ye are not able to bear it ; neither yet...

...For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, that there are contentions among you . And J., brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal'; for ye are yet carnal : for whereas there is among you envying and strife, and divisions, Are ye not...

...connexion plainly shows means the same, as spiritual men and natural men, in the foregoing verses; " And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal;" ie as in a great measure unsanctified. That by carnal the apostle means corrupt and unsanctified, is...

...seems applicable to an advanced state in the spiritual life — he could not, he says, speak unto them as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, " even as unto babes in Christ." Unless then it is concluded that the church of Christ must ever remain in an infant state, such communications...

...depart from the lav? and rule? of decency too, as they had done. Saith the apostle, (chap. iii. 1, &:c.) "I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto Spiritual but as unto carnal even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet...

...life. The same method was pursued by St. Paul, with respect te the Corinthians: / toufd not, says he, speak' unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ— I have fed t/ou iritfi milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye litre not eble to bear it. , Now a...

...cannot bear them now: and Paul writes to some who were prone to be wise in their own conceits — / could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto yc w&renot able to bear it; neither yet are...

...cannot bear them now : and Paul writes to some, who were prone to be wise in their own conceits — / could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal : I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it : neither yet...

...they had not the power of miracles, which he intended shortly to come, and show they had not. TEXT. 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto...but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. PARAPHRASE. 1 And I, brethren, found you so given up to pride and vainglory, in affectation of learning...

...a practice which they could not yet abandon. For all this he gives us a very satisfactory reason. " And I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal even as unto babes in Christ — I have fed you with milk and not with meat, for hitherto ye werenot able to bear it, neither •yet...